Ryan Scott’s entrepreneurial spirit is helping Avalon Master Builder meet growing consumer demand for sustainable homes. As his mid-size company thrives in a competitive industry dominated by larger players, LINK talks with Scott about hard lessons, entrepreneurship and the value of keeping it simple....
Jennifer Dalen’s award-winning career in radio started in a statistics class. She remembers “not enjoying” learning about probability — and she remembers starting to think maybe her mom was right. Maybe instead of business school, she should pursue a career in communications. So Dalen switched...
FMD003: Flow management devices unidirectional captive displacement prover introduces SAIT students and apprentices to equipment they’ll be using in the field. Inside SAIT’s Endress+Hauser Instrumentation Engineering Technology Process Lab are rows of metal stands fitted with meters used in industry...
Fake news is more than just incorrect; it’s produced specifically to deceive. And the problem is growing, particularly on social media. That’s why SAIT journalism instructor and a SAIT Cisco Research Chair in e-Learning, Tyler Nagel, is researching how fake news impacts SAIT students. In a wide-ranging...
As Alberta’s economy diversifies and Calgary places new energy into becoming a hub for innovation, SAIT continues to respond to growing industry demand. New seats for students In August, the provincial government announced 146 new spots for students in the School of Information and Communications Technologies...
After a strong showing by SAIT competitors at the 2018 Skills Canada Alberta Competition in May, five SAIT students won medals at the Skills Canada National Competition in June. Taylor Desjardins (shown above) took gold in Cabinetmaking and Brandon Mintz won gold in Precision Machining. Cassidy Lindseth...
On June 13, School of Business instructor Mike Clovechok received the title of emeritus during one of SAIT’s spring 2018 convocation ceremonies. He is the first instructor to receive the emeritus title, which is awarded to a retired employee who, through contributions to student success, teaching or research,...
In March, Festus Adebisi became a guest lecturer with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the world’s largest anti-fraud organization and premier provider of anti-fraud training and education. A Certified Fraud Examiner, Adebisi is one of only three Canadian guest lecturers with...
A unique tilting solar carport has been installed on the south side of SAIT’s Green Building Technologies (GBT) Lab and Demonstration Centre. Covering six stalls, the carport combines solar panels on its roof with solar tracking technology. By tilting to follow the sun — the panels are designed to tilt...
As LINK goes to press, two alumni have been named among eight finalists for the 2018 Hawksworth Young Chef Scholarship: Jordan Wilkinson (PCK ’12) from Hexagon Restaurant in Oakville, Ont., and Michael Ellis (ACKP ’12) from the Calgary Winter Club. The winner will be named in October. Photos...
